Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:01:54 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PowerEdge 1850 Message-ID: <20041004190154.GA98373@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <20041004135545.M61493@wcborstel.nl> References: <1096891159.95899.15.camel@ramses> <20041004135545.M61493@wcborstel.nl>
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On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 04:03:03PM +0200, Jorn Argelo wrote: > Anyway, if I get it right it runs an dual Xeon with EM64T. If you want to use > that you will need the AMD64 port of FreeBSD 5.2.1. I'm not sure if EM64T is > backwards compatible with the x86 instruction code, so 4.10 will not be an > option. The main problem will be the RAID controller. SMP on 5.2.1 is also not > really top notch AFAIK. The AMD64 and EM64T chips start in a x86 compatible mode, so both will run 4.10 fine. I'm writing this from a 2850 now, running 4.10-STABLE. David.
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